Fashion Monday with JJ Lee

Check out this Toronto Sun article about Tommy Ton and his elevation much like The Sartorialist. And then there's the shoes .

Professional photographer Kris Krug offers some pointers on how to make your snapshots works of art... Follow these tips and you'll have great wedding photographs worth posting! (Originally aired in December.) Listen to it through Google Video.

I started hearing about this guy named, Horst. A bit of a legend. Photographer and great portraitist Alex Waterhouse-Hayward had nothing but great things to say about him. If you visit, his site you can a see fine portrait of Horst. Horst's name also started popping up on all sorts of sites on photography. Alex calls him "the Merlin to his Excalibur." You see, Horst Wenzel is the FILM camera repair technician to some of the best photographers in Vancouver and even has his fans on the other side of the world. I really wanted to meet him and finally did at the Vancouver Camera Show on Sunday. Then I visited his home workshop where Horst and I had a chance to talk about his craft at a time when digital photography is dominating the profession.

Mike Chadwick's recent book, Vancouver In Focus: The City's Built Form is an opportunity to consider the art of architectural photography. While Chadwick's images were taken with a Pentax SLR, the more common professional photographer's choice for architecture is the field camera. It's the camera with bellows and requires a tripod and makes large negatives. More importantly, field cameras have a complex structure, an architecture even, in its design that compensates for distortions which occur when one shoots with an SLR camera. And to help us understand the art of architectural photography, VBD interviewed Simon Scott. Simon Scott is one of the city's best (highly recommended by architects who know) and he agreed to join VBD in front of Arthur Erickson's MacMillan Bloedel building in Vancouver to talk about his art and craft.

CBC Radio 3 Farah's War A young Iraqi-Canadian photojournalist embeds with extended family in Baghdad during the invasion of Iraq. The first time you hear about Farah Nosh is during the invasion of Iraq. Her parents, whom you interview about watching the war on TV, tell you their daughter, Farah, is in Baghdad. You call her on her cell. You spoke only for a few minutes. Then she has to go. Bombs are beginning to fall.

CBC Radio 3 Sites Unseen: Seven Days, Six Disposable Cameras and Two Blind Photographers This is a photo-conceptual project where I collaborated with a writer and an advocate of people with disabilities (both are visually impaired) to capture their unseen world through photography.